The Ubuntu lock screen always asks for a password even when the account does not have password.
In my opinion, it should be exactly like the login screen: a button "connect >" for accounts that don't ...

I have upgraded to 13.10 from 13.04 now after booting (even after updates and rebooting) my user id is not listed. It has a uid higher than the minimum in lightdm.conf. I have the user light display ...

I'm running Xubuntu raring with lightdm and xscreensaver. Both users on the system have xscreensaver set to lock the screen after n minutes. However, when I click "switch user" (or do gdmflexiserver ...

In Ubuntu 10.04 while at the login screen (gdm), when the computer's physical power button was pressed a screen popped up that offered options on shutting down the system (shutdown, restart, cancel, ...

I use XFCE as my desktop, and I wanna know how LightDM works with PAM.
when I use normal kernel arguments, LightDM starts and then XFCE is started by LightDM.
When I add "text" to kernel parameter, ...

There are 11 computers in my classroom. Yesterday they began to reboot randomly, all of them. I reinstalled Ubuntu and got this error everytime.
Also, after reinstalling the rebooting continued.
Can ...

It is wiered that I'm not able to reinstall unity-2d on my system.
I removed it as it was not ready to go into the 2D mode. I have XRDP install for which I need Unity-2D.
after removing the unity-2d ...

So I am trying out the 14.04 and I keep both of my monitors in portrait mode. But the login splash is in landscape. But I can't seem to figure out how to rotate my login splash or where the config is ...

hello all i am asking once again for a little help. here is my question
i am trying to run a x11vnc the thing is i want it to be launched with a service command but not at startup and as well i want ...

I'm a student and I have access to a pretty powerful machine in the University lab.
I've been trying to allow my roommates to remotely login to my machine on an account that I've created so that they ...

When I first had only Unity as a desktop manager, I didn't need to log out so I'm not sure if this issue has been around before. I'm say so because It's important to know that I currently have Xfce ...

The initial login on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine can take anywhere from 45 seconds to two minutes. If I log out, then log back in again, the login time takes between 4 and 7 seconds.
How can I find out ...

I like the GDM locked screen theme a lot! But even if i set GDM as the Display Manager but log in to Unity session,the lock screen remains that oh LightDM...
I want to use LightDM as my login Display ...

When I use LightDM, it will auto-login to desktop just fine. The only problem is Compiz doesn't work, and menus don't work. I can't right-click the desktop, and I can't select program menus in the top ...

I need to configure LightDM, so user could only choose session type which will then start automatically without password. And when he had choosen 'kiosk' session, it should start as quest. When he had ...

Whenever I switch from Unity to Gnome Shell or Classic Gnome, it sometimes takes what seems to be an awful long time to get to the new desktop. If I remember correctly, one time it took over 2 mins. ...

When I try to login with lightdm my monitors go dark and then switch off before taking me back to the lightdm login screen. I get a message telling me:
Could not switch to the monitor configuration
...

I do have a kubuntu box connected to our Windows AD DC, and now i want to login one domain user in my AD to my kubuntu box but I cannot find a way to log as other user in the login screen. I tried to ...

I installed elementary-desktop on my Ubuntu 14.04 x64 virtual machine following these steps, but I don't get the Pantheon session in LightDM.
I only have KDE Plasma Workspace and Ubuntu(Default).
Is ...

How do I change the onboard settings for lightdm? I have a tablet with ubuntu on it. It was pretty easy to set up the onboard keyboard to show up in lightdm.... except I really don't like the way it ...

I have been using Ubuntu 14.04 soon after it is released. Today I messed something up with the Chinese input ibus, and I don't know if this is the reason at all, but when I reboot using sudo shutdown ...

I am working on making an automated install based off of Lubuntu using Debian Installer so that the install is as automated as possible (a few inputs at the very beginning). So far I am mostly pleased ...

When trying to login again after locking my computer, I sometimes can no longer login using the graphical interface. My username does show up, but I the bar where you'd usually fill in your password ...

I've installed a custom indicator called PRIME Indicator and it shows up in the top panel (next to date time etc) after I login.
I would like to show the indicator before login on the unity-greeter ...

so I have ubuntu studio 64 in a live USB and I wanted to change the way it boots. Namely, the liveUSB boots directly to a live user session bypassing lightDM. I want to change that and as I figured ...

my problem is very similar to that presented here:
Ubuntu gets stuck in a Login Loop
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
I can enter my account in GUI just for 1-2 seconds after that I am returned
back to ...